Perhaps there will be a time when we will look back at the Victor Brown era at Alta Loma with even greater appreciation for what he accomplished.

But even now, it’s quite remarkable.

Brown won his fourth straight Baseline League singles title, and eventually advanced to the round of 16 of the CIF-SS singles tournament before losing, earning his second straight Sun Player of the Year honors.

Since he lost the previous year in the finals, his loss in the Despite the premature loss, Brown was happy he came back to play for Alta Loma, after considering concentrating on his career.

“Those four years were great. It was one of the best experiences of my life,” he said. “It was great. Tennis is known as an individual sport, but playing as a team, took it to a whole new level. ,.. Before, I was just a one-man army.

“At the first of the year, I wasn’t sure if I was going to play high school tennis, because I wanted to put in as many hours and try and improve my game as much as possible. But I couldn’t let down my friends from previous years playing high school tennis. And that environment I really liked.”

Brown finished his senior season with a 36-3 record, including one loss when he was forced to retire during the CIF-SS Division 2 team tournament because of leg cramps.

“That’s been the biggest problem. I’m working hard to fix that,” said Brown, showing salt pills and calf rollers he uses to prevent cramps.

He was also working hard on changing his game, something Alta Loma coach Erick Ekelund noticed.

“I think he worked hard on improving his game,” Ekelund said. “His power game took off. He’s looking at taking the next step for college.”

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“I felt like I needed to make my serve more of a weapon,” Brown said.

Brown is now headed off to play tennis at BYU, where eventually he has bigger plans, but for now has more modest goals.

“I just want to make the top six,” Brown said.

He’s starting small, but in a few years there could be the same look back at his college career as there was for high school.

COACH OF THE YEAR: Julie Perkins, Rim of the World

Perkins is the coach of the year after everything fell into place in 2014.

She guided a senior-laden group, prepared them for the season with an unusually mild winter for the mountain school and led them where they had never gone before.

Perkins said Rim had never been past the second round of the CIF-SS Division 5 playoffs. This year, the Scots won the Mountain Valley League, and as an unseeded team, knocked off top-seeded Rosemead in the quarterfinals on total games (82-80), and then defeated fourth-seeded Jurupa Valley 10-8 in the semifinals before finally falling in the championship match to third-seeded Beaumont, 12-6.

Despite the loss in the finals, the doubles team of Gabriel Urioste and Aaron Ramos went 15-0 in the playoffs.

Rim was also a team with outstanding academics, finishing third in CIF-SS among small schools boys tennis teams in team GPA at 3.78.

FIRST TEAM SINGLES

Patrick Cachapero, Sophomore, Redlands

The two-time Citrus Belt League champion went 42-11 overall on the season and advanced to the third round of the CIF-SS singles tournament. After a first-round bye, he won his second-round match 6-0, 6-3 before falling to Palm Desert’s Austin Rapp 6-0, 6-4 in the third round. Rapp went on to advance to the championship match.

Andrew Leahy, Sophomore, Claremont

After a first-round bye, the Sierra League singles champion easily won his second-round match, 6-0, 6-0 before falling to Victor Brown in the third round in a super tiebreaker after splitting the first two sets.

Brian Lo, Sophomore, Chino Hills

He was the Sierra League runner-up to Andrew Leahy, but still won his first-round match at the University of Redlands regional 6-0, 6-0 over Grand Terrace’s Luis Lopez. He fell in the second round to Austin Rapp of Palm Desert, 6-1, 6-3. Rapp went on to advance to the finals.

FIRST TEAM DOUBLES

Angelo Mollo, Junior and David Washington, Junior, Damien

Teaming up for the first time, the Sierra League doubles champions went 34-0 in league this year, including league finals. In the CIF-SS doubles tournament, they advanced out of the University of Redlands regional and were one of the final 19 doubles teams before losing. They finished the season with a record of 40-1.

Brystol Liboa, Freshman and Bon-Louie Angeles, Sophomore, Redlands

Teaming up at Citrus Belt League Finals, Liboa and Angeles won the CBL title. At the CIF-SS regional at University of Redlands, they had a first-round bye, then won in straight sets against Joaquin Castruita and Max Aviles of Citrus Valley in the second round before falling to Mollo and Washington in a super tiebreaker in the third round.